I'm 170 now.
I got up to 240 lbs (I'm tall, so I just looked big, which was "good" aesthetically).
Lost 80 lbs with "diet" / food eating habits change.
Every week I cut one shit thing out of my diet.
Just something small.
Eventually I stopped eating those shit things, because I wasn't "dieting," I was changing my eating habbits.
I eventually got into a "paleo" esque style of eating: meat, veggies (lots), and high fat.
Cutting back:
-Soda
-Alcohol
-Sugar
-Carbs (bread / whites)
Is pretty significant. Then you can go further.
EXAMPLE: do you drink soda? Cut it down 1x can a day, and try to cut it in half by end of week.
Do you eat desert? Stop that over another week.
Do you eat carbs/breads after 3pm (I know this doesn't really matter calorically, vis a vis WHEN, but psychologically its helped a lot of people I know)? Stop that in a week.
Move that to 12:00pm.
Add another helping of veggies over the next week.
Continue, and you'll eventually have a pretty healthy "diet" where you can splurge every now and then.
/no pictures for you.
/kept it off for the last 4 years, now I'm trying to "bulk" up a bit again, so I'm relearning how to eat heavier